Please report back on your boots! I'm thinking about getting my mom something to wear in Amsterdam over New Year's (she and my dad are going on a bucket list trip) and I'd like to get her stuff she can wear to deal with the cold, wet weather since we're in the Southern US and they've never had to worry much about dressing for that stuff.

My feet are exactly average which is great for everything except sales, when they inevitably have like 8 pairs of size 6 and 3 of size 10.5 and nothing else. I think they're like the exactly average shape too, because even when other people have to size up or down for certain brands I am always size 7.

Yeah before I went full on nail salon and started getting soft gel overlays, I did several coats of nail envy on the top and undersides, then color, then several layers of seche vite on the top, edge, and underside. People thought my nails were fake a lot, and considering they were encased in a layer of what is effectively plastic thicker than my real nails on all sides, they may as well have been.

Yeah before I went full on nail salon and started getting soft gel overlays, I did several coats of nail envy on the top and undersides, then color, then several layers of seche vite on the top, edge, and underside. People thought my nails were fake a lot, and considering they were encased in a layer of what is effectively plastic thicker than my real nails on all sides, they may as well have been.

LolololFor me, it (basically the nail envy) made my nails harder, which was nice because my natural nails have the structure of several pieces of thin paper glued together with a mostly dried glue stick. If I had natural nails that didn't casually tear off when you give them a mean look, I might have been more worried about long term consequences. Really the only weird thing was that my nails were pretty yellowed under there... not that anyone ever saw them naked.

I let my nails grow out sometimes, but then I get really obsessive about the grit that gets underneath them. Then after a few says I get frustrated and cut them back down again.Gloriaaaah, February 21, 2019, 11:21:43 pm

IDK how people with long nails don't get crud under their nails, it's like I have some kind of yuck geyser under there I swear. I don't even touch anything and BAM grossness. I live a hygienic life only with the existence of nail brushes. I have them on every sink in my house, one at work, and one in my purse.